Lara Neves

Lara is mom to three daughters—two teens and a tween. She loves to share her parenting and homemaking triumphs and failures here at Overstuffed! She was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2015 and has been fighting it ever since. When she isn't working on her mother of the year award, you can find her reading, singing, or taking photos.

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I remember when I was around 7 or 8. I wanted pets SO badly, but my parents didn't allow me to have any. Desperate, I collected some rolly pollies and placed them in a plastic tupperware cup. They were to be my pets. Unfortunately, I didn't put anything from their environment in the cup with them and placed them in the garage for safe keeping. They were dead the next morning.

Oh, Lara. I think your Chloe and my Sloane would be fast friends. In fact, I'm sure of it. Sloane regularly "rescues" frogs from our yard, fireflies and caterpillars from their homes and brings them in. She makes such careful little nests for them, lugs them around, names her pets and talks to them. Oh, yes, Chloe and Sloane are surely kindred spirits. I bet their mothers are, too.

Those HansEns are the worst! Always so catty! I am so glad I am not one of those HansEns because who knows maybe I would be catty as well! ;-) On a more serious note, I had a pet catepillar when I was 6, and when it died I adopted a green grasshopper about the three inches long my mother was SO (sarcastic tone) happy about, then came the fish, hamster, and finally dog. So it looks like you will soon be in the market for some additional pet houses and such-goodluck!